Rotherham boss Steve Evans praised the “excellent” Paul Taylor after the on-loan Blues striker helped the Millers to a 1-0 victory at Millwall on Saturday. The 26-year-old, on loan at the New York Stadium until January, supplied the cross which led to Ben Pringle’s winner four minutes after the break.
The Millers’ line-up also included Anthony Wordsworth, who was making his debut having joined the South Yorkshire side earlier this week, also on loan until January, while Scott Loach was on the bench.
Regarding Taylor, who is still to open his goals account after three games for the Millers, Evans told the Rotherham official website: "He’s been terrific every day I’ve seen him. He was at Peterborough which is why he went for £1.5 million to Ipswich Town.
"He was good there but these teams have big squads and we’re always on the lookout for good players wherever they are.
"We’ve got Loachy, Paul Taylor and now Anthony Wordsworth now from Ipswich but I don’t mind where they play. We’ll take them off the moon from Martian FC if they’re good enough to play for us.
"Paul’s always a player we’ve liked and we were quite diligent with that and worked quite hard because he was on his way to a 'bigger' Championship club and I had to convince him to come here. He's a terrific kid.
"He was excellent today but it was amongst a number of other big performances today and an overall excellent team performance.”
As for Wordsworth’s debut, he added: ‘[Lee] Frecklington and Wordsworth complemented each other.”
Jack Marriott made his second appearance for Carlisle as they drew 1-1 at home to Southend, the striker coming close to netting his first league goal on a number of occasions. The 19-year-old is with the Cumbrians for a month.
Freddie Veseli made his fifth appearance for Port Vale as they lost 2-0 at home to Notts County. The former Swiss U21 international is at Vale Park until January with Mick McCarthy having confirmed that he is out of his future plans.
Meanwhile, Suffolk Constabulary have revealed that they made just two arrests at yesterday’s East Anglian derby.
Elsewhere, former Blues boss Jim Magilton has revealed just how close the Blues came to signing Everton’s Republic of Ireland international Seamus Coleman back in January 2009.
Magilton, now the elite performance director at the Northern Irish FA, tweeted: "Amazing ITFC had agreed a deal of £50k for Seamus Coleman from Sligo Rovers when Everton came looking - and the rest is history, as they say!”